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The mission of Whole Children, Inc. is to nourish the capabilities of children with special needs, to provide a valuable resource for their families, and to facilitate the children’s inclusion in the community.

The search for the infinite – why? Helpless puppet in the theater of life and faced with the impermanence of his life, his loved ones and his belongings, man has sought to root himself in a deeper reality in order to feel a sense of control over his fate.

We often wish that medicine would be as sturdy as a three-legged stool, balanced equally by three healing resources: medications, surgeries and self-care approaches. Ideally, medicine would call upon self-care for 60 to 90%. In reality, Western medicine had dismissed the third-leg aspect thinking: “Why bother trying to take care of problems ourselves when we have such wonderful pills and procedures?” The first consequence we observed was the deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship.